1. Posted: August 1, 2015In:

    When a passive psychiatrist?s patient discovers his secret ability to sense and absorb people?s mental distress, she pressures him to challenge his exploitative boss in order to pursue his dream of starting a nonprofit practice.

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    Why not go the whole nine yards in the role reversal?. Have the patient be the one with the empathy and emotional IQ that the psychiatrist lacks as well as the one who counsels the shrink to make a career move. (And maybe is get out of psychiatry altogether. Maybe the shrink is a square peg in roundRead more

    Why not go the whole nine yards in the role reversal?. Have the patient be the one with the empathy and emotional IQ that the psychiatrist lacks as well as the one who counsels the shrink to make a career move. (And maybe is get out of psychiatry altogether. Maybe the shrink is a square peg in round hole; his real calling, his deepest dream is to become a pastry chef, or a motorcycle mechanic, or an Elvis imitator.)

    IOW the patient would make a better shrink than the shrink.

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  2. Posted: July 27, 2015In:

    In a society divided into five factions, Tris is seen as a threat because she doesn?t belong?she is a Divergent. When the lives of those she loves hang in the balance, Tris must learn to fight back before it?s too late.

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    In a dystopic world divided into factions, a young girl must defeat a conspiracy to destroy her faction, Divergents, people who don't fit in, before she and all Divergents are exterminated. (31 words, 219 characters) Not an easy story line to condense into a logline. On the other hand, the movie wasRead more

    In a dystopic world divided into factions, a young girl must defeat a conspiracy to destroy her faction, Divergents, people who don’t fit in, before she and all Divergents are exterminated. (31 words, 219 characters)

    Not an easy story line to condense into a logline. On the other hand, the movie was an adaptation of a best-selling YA novel. Thus, like the “Hunger Games”, the concept came to Hollyweird’s attention as a tested and proven money maker in another media. It’s fate was not completely dependent on the logline.

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  3. Posted: July 28, 2015In:

    A cunning serial predator lures a stranded schoolgirl back to his den, where he tries to make her a pawn in his sadistic game, or, can she outplay him?

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    I think the exercise of writing a logline can be useful for a script of any length. I see this as another example underscoring the need for a field in the posting to indicate the format (feature film, short, series). Knowing that really makes a difference evaluating the logline. (And a field for genRead more

    I think the exercise of writing a logline can be useful for a script of any length. I see this as another example underscoring the need for a field in the posting to indicate the format (feature film, short, series). Knowing that really makes a difference evaluating the logline.

    (And a field for genre, too.)

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